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Title: Useful Mapping Links - Updated June 23/2011
Post by: Plague Bringer on October 06, 2010, 06:38:41 pm
1.2 CUMMING? NEEDS UPDATE!
Always accepting suggestions for websites to add and help filtering out dead links. (;))

Thanks to the now inactive TRaK (http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2642), who put in the work to put the first Useful Mapping Links topic together and keep it updated for quite a while.

If you see a site that is outdated, PM me or post here and I'll either update or remove the link. If you'd like someone (yourself or otherwise) to be added to the Tremulous Mapper's section, again, PM me or post here with a link.

The Tremulous Specific Links section has been removed in favor of them being tagged as either community or official links. This allows them to be in their proper sections while still easily being defined as game-specific links.

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23/6/2011
Added Firstinaction's website to [i]Community Members'[/i] section

16/5/2011
Added [i]General Resources[/i] sections
Added two RGB color value sites to the [i]General Resources[/i] section
Thought about checking for dead links
Didn't
Came back
Looked through mapper's websites
Removed TRaK's link in [i]Tremulous Mapper Websites[/i]; 404  :'(

08/11/2010
Added [i]Programs and Utilities[/i] and [i]Help and FAQ[/i] sections to accommodate a larger variety of links
Amended opening paragraph
Added and amended various links

01/11/2010
Split [i]Textures and Skyboxes[/i] sections

23/10/2010
Amended Tutorials section better accommodate manuals, wikis, and forums
Amended Tremulous Map Repositories section to better accommodate Q3 engine games
[i]Tutorials, Manuals, and Articles[/i] has appropriate sections
Added an *[i]Link Endorsed by Tremulous Developers[/i] stamp for developer websites that fall outside of the [i]Trem Mapper Websites [/i]section
Added *[i]Tremulous Community Link[/i] stamp for tremulous.net/forum/* links and community member websites that fall outside of the [i]Trem Mapper Websites[/i] section
Added and amended various links
Alphabetically organized links
Fixed design and style inconsistencies between sections

06/10/2010
Removed [i]Tremulous Specific Links[/i] section
Removed dead links
Added [i]Reference... and WIP[/i] section
Added and amended various links
Fixed design and style inconsistencies between sections



Programs and Utilities
Ingar's NetRadiant Packages (http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=4640.0) *Tremulous Community Link



General Resources
500+ RGB color values (http://cloford.com/resources/colours/500col.htm)
The Other RGB Color Chart (http://www.tayloredmktg.com/rgb/)



Tutorials, Manuals and Articles

Tips & Tutorials:
Brain's Mapping Videos (http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=11866.0) *Tremulous Community Link
GtkRadiant Mapping (http://clankiller.com/games/quake/gtkradianttut/)
LevelDK tutorial list (http://www.leveldk.co.uk/tutindex.htm)
Map-craft Tutorials (http://www.map-craft.com/modules.php?name=Tutoriaux)
Method's tutorials (http://www.methodonline.com/tutorials.htm)
Richdiesal's Mapping tutorial (http://www.richdiesal.map-craft.com/tutorials/gc102lsn1.html)
Sock's Tutorials (http://www.simonoc.com/pages/articles.htm)
Soubok's mapping tips (http://soubok.googlepages.com/tremulous_editing_tips) *Tremulous Community Link
Taiyo.uk's tutorials (http://www.haosredro.com/) *Tremulous Community Link
TRaK's Lighting Tips (http://gameboom.net/node/1187) *Tremulous Community Link
Tremulous Mapping Guide (http://tremmapping.pbwiki.com/) *Link endorsed by Tremulous Developers
Wemakemaps tutorials (http://www.wemakemaps.com/Q3Radianthelp.htm) *For q3radiant, but still mostly applicable

Manuals:
Q3A Shader Manual (http://www.heppler.com/shader/)
Q3Map2 Shader manual (http://q3map2.everyonelookbusy.net/shader_manual/contents.htm)
The Theory of Lighting (http://www.keenleveldesign.com/html/misc/lightingtutorial1.htm)

Articles, Wikis and Forums:
GtkRadiant Wikibooks (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GtkRadiant)
Jex's Understanding Vis and Hint Brushes (http://tremmapping.pbwiki.com/Understanding+Vis+and+Hint+Brushes) *Link endorsed by Tremulous Developers
Natural Selection 2's Mapping forum (http://ns2devs.com/index.php?/forum/15-level-design/)
Q3Map2 support forums (http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=7)
Q3map2 Wiki (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Q3Map2)



Help and FAQ
Common Map Compile Errors (http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=12861.0) *Tremulous Community Link



Models and Prefabs

Blackrayne.net models (http://http://www.blackrayne.net/models_1.php)
KatsBits models (http://www.katsbits.com/download/models/)
Map-Craft Models (http://www.map-craft.com/modules.php?name=Map_Resources)
We Make Maps models (http://www.wemakemaps.com/mapmodels.htm)



Sounds

Findsounds (http://www.findsounds.com/)
Flashkit SoundFX (http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/)
Freesound (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/)
PacDv (http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/index.html)
PDsounds (http://pdsounds.tuxfamily.org/)
SoundSnap (http://www.soundsnap.com/)



Reference, Concept, and WIP

CG Society Illustrations&Concepts (http://forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?s=f9533271413c749e7c95f418e9c5f7df&f=133)
ConcetArt -dot -org (http://www.conceptart.org/)
ConceptShips Art Blog (http://conceptships.blogspot.com/)
Game-Artist.net forums (http://www.game-artist.net/forums/)
Jan van der Weg - Environments (http://www.janvanderweg.com/art_environment_p.html) *Link endorsed by Tremulous Developers
Polycount "3D & 2D Videogame Art" (http://www.polycount.com/forum/index.php)
TRaK's Photobucket (http://s231.photobucket.com/albums/ee138/2xG/) *Tremulous Community Link
The Reference Material Thread (http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=9099.0) *Tremulous Community Link
RDS General Mapping Thread (http://forums.mapcore.net/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=1552&sid=7f32b7351f903723a96ee791b9c2e886)
RDS&WIP Source Engine Thread (Facepunch) (http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1007419)
RDS&WIP Source Engline Thread (Interlopers) (http://www.interlopers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3153&sid=3e11a8cc722adf4dcdc35485b20a8229)
RDS&WIP Tremulous Thread (http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=3628.0) *Tremulous Community Link
World of Level Design Board (http://www.worldofleveldesign.com/forums/)



Textures and... *Refer to website/readme for terms of use

CGtextures (http://www.cgtextures.com/)
EvilLair's textures (http://www.evillair.net/v2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=43)
Filterforge (http://www.filterforge.com/filters/)
Hourence's Pitores (http://help.hourences.com/texturespitores.htm), Kraden (http://help.hourences.com/textureskraden.htm), and Nature (http://help.hourences.com/texturesnature.htm)
KatsBits Textures (http://www.katsbits.com/download/textures/)
PhilipK textures (http://www.philipk.net/)
RAA texture pack (http://www.modrequiem.net/fr/news/?article=119)
Shebob's Textures (http://shebob.com/tf/)
TRaK's textures (http://trak.mercenariesguild.net/node/3) *Tremulous Community Link



... Skyboxes *Refer to website/readme for terms of use

Amethyst7's skyboxes (http://amethyst7.gotdoofed.com/env.htm)
Hipshot skyboxes (http://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9242)
Quake 3 Arena Skybox Collection (http://lvlworld.com/review.php?id=2023)
Sock's textures/skyboxes (http://www.simonoc.com/pages/materials.htm)



Tremulous and Quake3 Map Repositories

FunZone Maps (http://tremulous.soliter.org/base/)
Lvl - The Q3A Map Database (http://lvlworld.com/)
Mercenariesguild Download Center (http://downloads.mercenariesguild.net/maps/) *Link endorsed by Tremulous Developers
Random Key Whacking File Repo (http://maps.randomkeywhacking.com/index.php?section=base)
Tremulous Pak List (http://betaserv.tk/paklist.html)



Tremulous Mapper Websites

Tremulous devs:
DASPRiD (http://www.dasprids.de/)
Godmil (http://www.godmil.f2s.com/index.html)
Jex (http://jex.vilkacis.net/)
Overflow (http://bobbin.vilkacis.net/)
Stannum (http://www.janvanderweg.com/)
Community members:
F1rstinaction19 (https://sites.google.com/site/first19maps/)
n.o.s. brain (http://imn2rc.unvanquished.net/)
Ingar (http://ingar.satgnu.net/index.html)
Odin (http://megatog615.chozosanctuary.com/?page=tremulous)
Soubok (http://sites.google.com/site/soubok2/tremulous)
Supertanker (http://supertanker.mercenariesguild.net/)
Taiyo.uk (http://www.haosredro.com/)
Yourface (http://sites.google.com/site/cocoapet/)
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links (TAKE 2)
Post by: Plague Bringer on October 06, 2010, 06:39:02 pm
RESERVED
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links (TAKE 2)
Post by: Plague Bringer on October 06, 2010, 06:39:20 pm
RESERVED
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links - Updated 10/6/2010
Post by: CreatureofHell on October 06, 2010, 07:55:30 pm
Not complaining, just trying to help:
Brain's site is http://imn2rc.unvanquished.net/ and you could put up links to his video tutorials.
TRaK's site is http://trak.mercenariesguild.net/node/12
TRaK textures are therefore at http://trak.mercenariesguild.net/node/3
Supertanker's site is http://supertanker.mercenariesguild.net/
Blackrayne models are at http://www.blackrayne.net/models_1.php
Beergarden and tremcentral links are broken.
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links - Updated 10/6/2010
Post by: CATAHA on October 06, 2010, 08:02:01 pm
Supertanker and TRaK links are dead.
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links - Updated 10/6/2010
Post by: Knowitall66 on October 07, 2010, 12:27:28 am
Collection Of pretty much every Quake 3 skybox there was (Up to the date this pack was released): http://lvlworld.com/review.php?id=2023

TRaKs "Lighting Tips": http://gameboom.net/node/1187
Commander Keen's "Lighting Theory"; http://www.keenleveldesign.com/html/misc/lightingtutorial1.htm

KatsBits (Has some models (http://www.katsbits.com/download/models/) and textures (http://www.katsbits.com/download/textures/) for download): http://www.katsbits.com/
Map-Craft Models: http://www.map-craft.com/modules.php?name=Map_Resources

Souboks Site: http://sites.google.com/site/soubok2/tremulous
TRaKs Photobucket acc: http://s231.photobucket.com/albums/ee138/2xG/
Stannums Site: http://www.janvanderweg.com/
Godmils Site: http://www.godmil.f2s.com/index.html


Map repos:
http://betaserv.tk/paklist.html (Lists links to maps from a bunch of different repos)
http://maps.randomkeywhacking.com/index.php?section=base

Sorry about this being a bit of a mess :S
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links - Updated 10/7/2010
Post by: your face on October 07, 2010, 06:36:39 am
so have an inactive member take over the thread of another inactive member. wooo

:P
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links - Updated 10/7/2010
Post by: Plague Bringer on October 07, 2010, 07:04:26 am
so have an inactive member take over the thread of another inactive member. wooo

:P
::)
I'm here on no less than a bi-monthy basis, which is enough to keep up a thread like this for such an old engine & small community. Recently, though, I've been lurking daily. An infrequently-updated-but-more-up-to-date-than-anything-else thread like this is much better than the lack of one. TRaK's gone. I'm not. Case, meet point.
... Then go inside point.
Case in point.
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links - Updated 10/7/2010
Post by: CorSair on October 08, 2010, 07:59:44 pm
Thanks Plague, I had a urgent need of some links, and now you gave them, when some links were lost in teh internetz. Was planning too to sweep old and find some new links. But didn't got time to do that because of my other important activities IRL.

+1 to you ;D
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links - Updated 10/7/2010
Post by: Knowitall66 on October 09, 2010, 01:50:44 am
Didn't realize you were including Reference links here's some (May post some more later (Sorry about untidiness was kind of rushed :P));

http://www.game-artist.net/forums/ - "Work In Progress" & "Finished Projects" are handy though not just environments. "Sketchbooks" Has concept art.
http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1007419 - Source engine RDS thread (Note: The forum has a cap on the maximum number of post in a thread so if you don't see any posts in the thread for a few hours, then chances are a new thread has been created (Final comments may reflect this))
http://www.interlopers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3153&sid=3e11a8cc722adf4dcdc35485b20a8229 - Source engine RDS thread
http://forums.mapcore.net/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=1552&sid=7f32b7351f903723a96ee791b9c2e886 - RDS thread for random engines and games
http://ns2devs.com/index.php?/forum/15-level-design/ - Natural Selection 2's Mapping forum
http://www.polycount.com/forum/index.php - "3D & 2D Videogame Art" Contains plenty of interesting works (Though not all Environments)
http://forums.cgsociety.org/
http://conceptships.blogspot.com/ - Concept art blog various artists, most art is of ships but some include environments.
http://www.worldofleveldesign.com/forums/ - A level design board.

http://lvlworld.com/ - Quake 3 map repo, plenty of screenshots
http://www.fpsbanana.com/ - Screenshots in maps section of site, mostly for source engine games
http://www.moddb.com/mods - Some mod works are quite impressive (For example 'Black Mesa')
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links - Updated 10/9/2010
Post by: Plague Bringer on October 09, 2010, 07:31:34 am
Links are much appreciated K66.

Any ideas for improvement to the list (be it a new subsection or a different way of organizing) are welcome. I'm adding links as I come across them.
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links - Updated 10/7/2010
Post by: Knowitall66 on October 09, 2010, 07:47:48 am
No problem. Also, you may want to separate the tutorials and articles.
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links - Updated 10/7/2010
Post by: Plague Bringer on October 23, 2010, 05:20:54 pm
Thanks Plague, I had a urgent need of some links, and now you gave them, when some links were lost in teh internetz. Was planning too to sweep old and find some new links. But didn't got time to do that because of my other important activities IRL.

+1 to you ;D
CorSair, I missed you earlier. I'm glad this helped you out.  ;)

Oh yeah...
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Update:
Amended Tutorials section better accommodate manuals, wikis, and forums
Amended Tremulous Map Repositories section to better accommodate Q3 engine games
Tutorials, Manuals, and Articles has appropriate sections
Added an *Link Endorsed by Tremulous Developers stamp for developer websites that fall outside of the Trem Mapper Websites section
Added *Tremulous Community Link stamp for tremulous.net/forum/* links and community member websites that fall outside of the Trem Mapper Websites section
Added and edited various links
Fixed design and style inconsistencies between sections
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links - Updated 10/23/2010
Post by: Plague Bringer on October 31, 2010, 02:51:33 am
Just keepin' 'er at the top 'til the someone gives me a sticky.  ;)
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links - Updated 01/11/2010
Post by: Survivor on November 07, 2010, 01:35:53 pm
Replaced old sticky. 2 general notes:
1) If anything needs moderator action it might be better to pm an active mod (or semi-active like me) directly and request it, than just waiting it out. If it's useful we won't mind making a few clicks.
2) Threads are indeed getting old and especially reference threads suffer from this. You'll notice that anyone who comes up with a good new or replacement guide in the strategy section gets a sticky, and it won't be different here, or in any other forum dealing with trem. However, mods have (had) their specific subforums they check(ed), and some might now be without their regular oversight. That's why 1) is so important.
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links - Updated 01/11/2010
Post by: Plague Bringer on November 08, 2010, 03:23:08 pm
Replaced old sticky. 2 general notes:
1) If anything needs moderator action it might be better to pm an active mod (or semi-active like me) directly and request it, than just waiting it out. If it's useful we won't mind making a few clicks.
2) Threads are indeed getting old and especially reference threads suffer from this. You'll notice that anyone who comes up with a good new or replacement guide in the strategy section gets a sticky, and it won't be different here, or in any other forum dealing with trem. However, mods have (had) their specific subforums they check(ed), and some might now be without their regular oversight. That's why 1) is so important.
Thanks for the sticky and I'll definitely keep that in mind. I was thinking about PMing a mod but was rather hesitant because of my position in the community. Anyway, lesson learned, and thanks again.  ;)
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links - Updated 08/11/2010
Post by: keiex09 on January 10, 2011, 03:02:15 am
omm. :police: :police:
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links - Updated 16/5/2011
Post by: Firstinaction on June 21, 2011, 02:24:38 am
Well Plague bringer add my map- https://sites.google.com/site/first19maps/
Title: Re: Useful Mapping Links - Updated 16/5/2011
Post by: Plague Bringer on June 23, 2011, 07:52:10 am
Well Plague bringer add my map- https://sites.google.com/site/first19maps/
Not a problem. If anyone comes across any links they would like to add - be them to a personal site or a handy resource, don't hesitate to post or send me a message.